On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Zach Tellman <ztell...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Developers are still required to "participate" in the NIO design, in
> that blocking calls in the request handler need to be avoided to reap
> the full benefits. Netty provides a lot of nice abstractions over
> NIO, but kind of punts on how to effectively manage the concurrency it
> requires. Clojure's concurrency primitives don't really have a
> counterpart in Netty, so I don't see why they shouldn't be used.
>
So something like this:
(defn hello-world [request]
(future
(Thread/sleep 1)
(respond! request
{:status 200
:headers {"Content-Type" "text/html"}
:body "Hello world!"})))
Is non-blocking and perfectly fine?
> If you really want access to Netty, though, (:channel request) will
> return an org.jboss.netty.channel.Channel object, which will allow you
> to do pretty much anything you want.
>
Great!
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